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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Caleb Wellum treats the oil shocks of the 1970s as a byproduct of neoliberalism’s Cold War conquest
Description: Caleb Wellum is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He’s also the editor of Energy Humanities and a member of both the Petrocultures Research Group and the After Oil Collective.As an historian who studies the intersection of energy, culture and political economy in the twentieth century, he’s invested in understanding how natural resource development and especially oil extraction became a force that shapes social reality today. The book we talk about in this conversation is called Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Makin...